Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
Each couple is its own vaudeville act.
It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy
I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.